An independent report into consensual stop-and-searches in Scotland has called for the practice to be stopped. The report’s recommendations come as the latest statistics on searches by officers are published. So, what have we learned?

When Police Scotland bosses gave evidence to a committee of MSPs about the force’s stop-and-search data they revealed that 20,086 records were lost because a computer programmer “pressed the wrong button”. But in a world of back-ups, and back-ups to …